The Dutch-led team used NASA's Webb Space Telescope and a telescope in Chile to observe a young star some 1,370 light-years away.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

A cosmic void could be distorting how we see the universe expand. Sound from the Big Bang may hold the clues. According to astronomers, Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be located within a ...

Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the ...

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

Astronomers now think Earth and our Milky Way galaxy might be sitting in a giant, mysterious “cosmic void”—a huge region of ...

Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...

The Earth might be near the center of a vast low-density void in space, which could explain one of the cosmos's greatest ...

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a revolutionary possibility: Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be nestled ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...